The path that the founders of this country put in place, that worked well until the socialist takeover during WW I. They taxed imported manufactured goods. It would work even better today.
The path that the founders of this country put in place, that worked well until the socialist takeover during WW I. They taxed imported manufactured goods. It would work even better today.
If you want fact, it was the exploitation the dissatisfaction of the average American citizen with high tariffs on consumer goods at the end of the 19th century that lead directly to the ratification of the 16th amendment and the modern income tax:
I refer you to:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj1n1/cj1n1-10.pdf
THE RATIFICATION OF THE FEDERAL
INCOME TAX AMENDMENT
John Bruenker; Professor of History at the University of wisconsin— ParksideCatoJournal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1981), Copyright ©Cato Institute.
Prepared for the Cato Institute’s symposium “Taxation and Society,”
held at the University of Chicago in April 1980.
But you are welcome to go on believing in fantasy, and repeat history if you choose to.
Consumption-based taxes, in fact. Served the country well for over a century...a time of unparalled economic growth for any nation in history.
The Founders were dead-set against direct taxes, for good reasons. They knew their history, and they would have never stood for the kind of loss of liberty any income tax entails.